p. 431. | | | | [45] “Un tremblement de terre universel, mesme en France et aux | | pays septentrionaux, renversoit les villes toutes entières, | | déracinoit les arbres et les montagnes, et remplissoit les | | campagnes d’abysmes si profondes, qu’il semblait que l’enfer eût | | voulu engloutir le genre humain.” _Mezeray_, loc. cit. p. 418. | | _Barnes_, p. 431. | | | | [46] _Villani_, loc. cit. c. 119. p. 1000. | | | | [47] _Guillelm. de Nangis_, Cont. alt. Chron. loc. cit. p. 109. | | | | [48] Ibid. p. 110. | | | | [49] _Villani_, loc. cit. c. 72. p. 954. | | | | [50] Anonym. Istorie Pistolesi, in _Muratori_, T. XI. p. 524. “Ne | | gli anni di Chr. 1346 et 1357, fu grandissima carestia in tutta la | | Christianità, in tanto, che molta gente moria di fame, e fu grande | | mortalità in ogni paese del mondo.” | | | | [51] According to _Papon_, its origin is quite lost in the | | obscurity of remote ages; and even before the Christian Era, we are | | able to trace many references to former pestilences. De la peste, | | ou époques mémorables de ce fléau, et les moyens de s’en préserver. | | T. II. Paris, An VIII. de la rép. 8. | | | | [52] 1301, in the South of France; 1311, in Italy; 1316, in Italy, | | Burgundy and Northern Europe; 1335, the locust year, in the middle | | of Europe; 1340, in Upper Italy; 1342, in France; and 1347, in | | Marseilles and most of the larger islands of the Mediterranean. | | Ibid. T. II. p. 273. | | | | [53] Compare _Deguignes_, loc. cit. p. 288. | | | | [54] According to the general Byzantine designation, “from the | | country of the hyperborean Scythians.” _Kantakuzen_, loc. cit. | | | | [55] _Guid. Cauliac_, loc. cit. | | |